{"id":15476,"date":"2012-05-23T12:50:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T19:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15476"},"modified":"2012-05-23T12:50:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T19:50:28","slug":"open-thread-they-have-bodies-i-never-knew-they-had-bodies-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15476","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: They have bodies! I never knew they had bodies! Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Post what you want, when you want, with whom you want, want not what you want, want post want want post post post want. Self-promotion is cool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/easter-island-heads-have-bodies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15477\" title=\"easter-island-heads-have-bodies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/easter-island-heads-have-bodies-366x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/easter-island-heads-have-bodies-366x550.jpg 366w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/easter-island-heads-have-bodies.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thethinkbox.ca\/2012\/05\/10\/easter-island-heads-have-bodies\/\">Easter island heads have bodies!?? | Thinkbox<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fanniesroom.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/argentina-passes-gender-rights-law.html\">Argentina Passes Gender Rights Law<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dollarsandsense.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/dont-take-away-my-oxycodone.html\">Don\u2019t Take Away My Oxycodone!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/167647\/free-pussy-riot\">Free Pussy Riot | The Nation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/why-romney-could-be-a-transformational-president\/2012\/04\/24\/gIQAf6yeeT_blog.html\">Why Romney could be a transformational president.<\/a> Be frightened. Be very frightened.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/19\/high-resolution-video-of-earth\/\">High-resolution video of Earth<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/familyscholars.org\/2012\/05\/22\/can-we-be-friends\/comment-page-1\/#comment-123945\">Can We Be Friends? \u00ab Family Scholars<\/a> &#8220;We&#8221; being people who disagree about gay rights. I&#8217;m participating in the comments, a bit.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2012\/05\/how-much-do-comic-books-cost\">How Much More Do Comic Books Cost Today? | The Awl<\/a> Turns out that comic book prices have been rising much higher than inflation. Interestingly, the large majority of comic books that are really good and worth reading, came after the collapse of the huge audience comics used to have.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/09\/what-a-witch-hunt-actually-is\/\">What A Witch Hunt Actually Is<\/a> Saying that people who believe they&#8217;ve been raped should feel free to name their rapists&#8230; Not a witch hunt.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2012\/05\/am-i-on-the-no-fly-list-0151-and-other-faqs-to-the-fbi\/257316\/\">Want to know if you&#8217;re on the no fly list? That&#8217;s classified. And trying to get off of it? No one can tell you how.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/2012\/05\/toleration-respect-and-bigotry\">&#8220;Finally, it needs to be said more often and more loudly that opposing the legalization of same sec marriage is, in fact, a form of intolerant religious bigotry.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/05\/16\/obamas_new_free_speech_threat\/singleton\/\">This Executive Order appears to<\/a> be an attack on Americans\u2019 1st Amendment Rights and Yemenis&#8217; rights to self-determination&#8230; apparently the 1st Amendment had an exception about Yemen in it that I missed.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/18\/a-new-and-bizarre-illusion\/\">&#8220;this illusion turns beautiful celebrities as ugly as a frog peeking through ice. Be sure to keep your eyes on the cross in the center!&#8221;<\/a> It is really amazing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2012\/05\/the-anti-science-streak-in-federal-marijuana-policy\/257170\/\">The Anti-Science Streak in Federal Marijuana Policy &#8211; Conor Friedersdorf &#8211; Health &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wakingupnow.com\/blog\/maggie-part-2-of-the-harms-of-same-sex-marriage\">Waking up now responds to Maggie Gallagher on SSM<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/05\/13\/support-for-gay-marriage-rising-in-every-demographic\/\">Support for Gay Marriage Rising in Every Demographic \u00bb Sociological Images<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/only-mitt-romney-can-stave-off-a-new-debt-ceiling-fiasco-2012-5#ixzz1ufrWQtqw\">Is Mitt Romney the Keynsian choice?<\/a> The argument seems to be that Republicans are so destructive and so devoted to partisan politics above what&#8217;s good for the country, that the only way to prevent Republicans from blowing up the country to hurt Democrats is for Democrats to never be in power.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/krulwich\/2012\/05\/04\/152011840\/who-killed-mens-hats-think-of-a-three-letter-word-beginning-with-i\">Who Killed Men&#8217;s Hats? Think Of A Three Letter Word Beginning With &#8216;I&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2012\/05\/08\/implosions_in_the_avengers_the_dark_knight_rises_prometheus_are_hollywood_explosions_turning_inside_out_.html\">Did 9\/11 lead movie villains to start imploding things instead of exploding them?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2012\/05\/08\/480017\/mccarthy-trimming-fat-poor\/\">Rep. McCarthy: Pushing 300K Children Off Lunch Program To Protect Military Spending Is Trimming The Fat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/healthateverysizeblog.org\/2012\/05\/08\/the-haes-files-stereotype-management-skills-for-hbo-viewers\/\">I don\u2019t know what HBO\u2019s series, The Weight of the Nation*, is going to say, but if the previews are representative, you might want to use this handy \u201cviewers\u2019 guide\u201d to conserving sanity points.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I laughed aloud at this cartoon by Matt Bors:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattbors.com\/archives\/876.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15480\" title=\"white-babies-matt-bors\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/white-babies-matt-bors-550x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/white-babies-matt-bors-550x400.png 550w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/white-babies-matt-bors.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post what you want, when you want, with whom you want, want not what you want, want post want want post post post want. Self-promotion is cool. 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